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With the growth in recent years, shale gas now provides nearly 25 percent of the country’s total natural gas, an amount that could rise to over 46 percent by 2035, according to the Energy Information Administration. States have understood the incentives to encourage and facilitate fossil fuel development as substantial. Energy development has generated jobs, economic growth, and population growth. The impacts have been less well understood, at least until public costs and demonstrable damages begin to accrue. Then public agencies scramble to collect data and develop estimates. Some states, hearing each other’s experience, are attempting to collate information on infrastructure costs and departments of transportation (DOT) staffs have expressed the desire for easier access to figures. This paper documents in a short, accessible format energy development costs and cost management techniques that may be useful for DOTs.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD20 Pavement Maintenance.

01550057

15-5127

English

15p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Maps; References

Costs; Heavy vehicles; Highway maintenance; Impacts; Natural gas; Overweight loads; Pavement distress; States

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting; I60: Maintenance; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-5127

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 1:43PM